[AmericaUnited]

An appeals court will now review Taylor's claim that lethal injection is cruel and unusual punishment, a claim also used by two Florida death-row inmates that won stays from the Supreme Court over the past week. The court has agreed to use one of the cases to clarify how inmates may bring last-minute challenges to the way they will be put to death.

Give the guy a break! I don't fault Alito for wanting to make sure that absolutely everything is examined with a fine tooth comb and done properly in a death penalty case. He is a though, detailed oriented jurist. This does not make him a flaming liberal.

[Bullitt]

15 years have gone by for this raping murderer. Long enough for punishment for what he did.

[AntiGuv]

I think it had more to do with the fact that this was the exact same basis for appeal as that granted twice this week in Florida. It would hardly seem just if they grant a stay of execution twice and then deny a stay of execution for the same reason, especially if in the end the challenge is decided in favor of the Florida inmates.

What I don't quite get, though, is how any executions by lethal injection can now go forward until this is decided, since every one of them can be appealed on the exact same basis.

[LibertyLee]

I agree--I'm FOR the death penalty, but I don't think we give Alito a black mark for voting to hear with more detail a case (or I think it's letting a lower court hear a case) without studying the issues. Only 1 day on the court and I'd want time too.